What the hell am I doing?

Visual communication :: And the unexpected results of tag searching / surfing. You do not neccesarily get related results, but that is what is so interesting, the journey that it takes you on.

The ‘uselessness’ of tagging, is mirrored in the ‘uselessness’ of the art piece generated. It has a meaning, provides enjoyment (hopefully). But does it provide anything beyond that?

The way that the user struggles with the generative art mixer to get what they want is similar in how you might struggle with poorly tagged data. The user has some level of control, yet where they are taken; the journey they experience is determined by the computer, by the data pulled from delicious.

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Trying to sort out in my head how im going to go about passing back and forth all the variables thru php and stuff… can I just use a variable instead, pretty please? Also got a bit further with the gallery. Currently stuck using static xml, hoping to fix after I’ve sorted out the above mess in my head.At time of writing test gallery is stuck displaying: cows


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